Briefing Note – Red Hat Storage Despite its potential to increase storage performance, capacity and flexibility while decreasing acquisition and operational costs, software-defined storage (SDS) has limited success in the enterprise. The problem is that enterprise data centers are “in…
George Crump of Storage Switzerland, and Fred Oh from Hitachi Data Systems explain how to reduce time and avoid complexity of do-it-yourself analytics projects with the Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform (HSP). Purpose-built by HDS for fast-growing data analytics workloads, HSP…
Big Data Analytics uses distributed computing architectures, on platforms like Hadoop, to run large processing jobs on even larger datasets. Since data being processed in a Hadoop environment usually needs to be resident on the compute nodes themselves, this can…
For most organizations, public cloud storage is a great place to start but not where they should end. While there is an initial operational advantage to the public cloud, the long-term cost of renting TBs of capacity may be too expensive even after you factor in storage management costs. A private cloud storage solution can leverage similar concepts of public providers to keep the hard and soft costs under control while gaining the advantages of owning vs. buying, increased security, and localized performance.
The rumors around a potential NetApp/Solidfire deal seem to be heating up. My research leads me to believe there are some conversations between the two companies. CRN suggests that NetApp is interested in acquiring SolidFire for over a billion dollars.…
OpenStack is a set of tools for building and managing computing platforms for cloud data centers. Public cloud providers have widely adopted OpenStack, and now the toolset is working its way into the enterprise in the form of private clouds.…
HP StoreVirtual Briefing Note HP’s journey to hyper-convergence started in Colorado when they purchased LeftHand Networks. The LeftHand Networks solution was one of the first software-based storage solutions and one of the first scale-out storage solutions. It also happened to…
In this week’s MeetTheCEO Qumulo‘s Peter Godman joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges to talk about his company’s product, Qumulo Core, the world’s first data-aware scale-out NAS. Qumulo Core is a software-only, flash-first hybrid design that is optimized for the…
Case Study: First National Technology Services Managed Service Providers (MSP) face an enormous challenge, they have to provide IT services at a cost and quality better than the customers they are trying to attract while fending off competitive pressures from…
Which came first, the Success or the Flash? It is said that success breeds success, but sometimes success breeds flash which then breeds more success. This was the case for Litigation Consulting and Compliance firm, The Clutch Group. After landing…
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